Global Programme India is a community-led partnership model hosted by Caritas India with the support of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the Government of Germany and Caritas Germany. By focusing on four development themes at a large: Resilience to natural calamities, enhanced Nutritional and Food Security, Social Inclusion and strengthening civil society learning, the programme aims at improving the life situation of the particularly marginalized population of eighteen identified districts in four Indian States.

Programme Partners:

Geographical coverage:
The programme is implemented in 18 Districts covering 260 village of Assam, Bihar, Odisha and West Bengal.

Demographic coverage:

About the programme:
The programme mainly focusses to benefit the most vulnerable and socially disadvantaged communities. A total of 4,92,150 population  60,000 families and 30 civil society organizations are the direct project participants. The main beneficiaries of the program are traditionally marginalized groups, officially defined by the Indian authorities as & Scheduled Castes (SCs) and & Scheduled Tribes (STs), which live in the rural areas of selected districts Caritas India along with her twenty–three partner organisations are implementing the programme in 18 districts covering 260 villages in the Indian states of Assam, Bihar, Odisha and West Bengal towards contributing to the targets of the Sustainable Development Goals 2 (Zero Hunger), 10 (Reduced Inequalities) and 13 (Climate Action).

Intervention and Innovation:

1. Increased disaster resilience: Improve the resilience of the people by strengthening disaster management at different levels
2. Improved food security: Improve Food security (nutrition) by ensuring availability, accessibility, utilisation and stability through community participation, capacity building on sustainable farming, promoting local food and entitlements
3. Improved social inclusion: Promoting social and political participation of the marginalised groups on social structure in education, welfare and development
4. Civil society learning processes strengthened: Improve knowledge through constructive exchange between the various actors to increase accountability and responsiveness.